She joked that appearing opposite the comic actor Will Ferrell in The Other Guys had been testing. "At one point I had to bring in my attorneys," she said. "I had a restraining order against Will for the first month of shooting and then things got a little bit better."

George Michael deserves to lose his freedom, says Nancy Dell'Olio

George Michael, who was jailed for driving under the influence of drugs, wins no sympathy from Nancy Dell'Olio.

"I think it is disgusting what he did," said the former girlfriend of Sven-Göran Eriksson. "I don't care if you are famous, if you break the law, you pay the price."

Dell'Olio, a property lawyer, said at the launch of the GQ Man of the Year exhibition, at the Richard Young Gallery in Kensington: "Does he think because he is George Michael he can do whatever he wants? This is not acceptable behaviour."

In 2006, Kate Moss escaped prosecution over allegations that she took cocaine because it could not be proved which substance she had taken.

Dell'Olio added: "I am sorry to say this, but she gets away with it because she is Kate Moss? This is wrong. As celebrities, we need to set an example."

Lord Brabazon's wedding trap

Lord Brabazon of Tara, who leads the battle to rid the House of Lords of mice, is celebrating the engagement of his son and heir, Ben.

Typically, he is already worrying about the West Country church where Ben, a 27-year-old stockbroker, will marry Molly Parish, 26, who works for the Hooper Galton advertising agency.

"I'm sure they've got mice at the church because there are mice everywhere," says Ivon Moore-Brabazon, who is the Lords Chairman of Committees. "But they won't be House of Lords mice, that is for sure. Oh, I do hope the mice won't be a problem."